[softwarelist] Re: PDF import into OPW

On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:29:04 -0000, Ian Platt <plattir@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 2008年12月13日付けの"David Pilling"
> <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>のメールによると：
>
>> In message <49439062.5000704@xxxxxxxx>, Clive Bonsall <cbonsall@xxxxxxx>
>> writes
>>> On the face of it, PDF import seems like it should be useful for  
>>> filling
>>> in forms that are provided as PDF files (where text has to be typed  
>>> into
>>
>> I don't "get" what the problem is.
>>
>> I often fill in forms using Ovation Pro, usually they're printed on
>> paper, so I scan the form into an OP frame (using the TWAIN applet) then
>> overlay small text boxes for the information I want to add. These text
>> frames I set to have 0mm inset, align to centre, transparent background
>> colour, centred text. Having created one I ALT+Shift drag copies to the
>> other fields in the form.
>>
>> The key thing with this is to set the scale of the picture frame with
>> the scanned form in to 100% so things come out the original size. If
>> people really want their original form using, one can set the picture
>> frame to hide the original form and print out on the original paper
>> form.
>>
>
> That's exactly what I do for my course description forms :-)
> It's just so much easier (e.g. lining things up) in Ovation Pro cf Word!

... and this is precisely what I am trying to do, but using a PDF instead  
of a scanned image (why go to the trouble of scanning when you have a PDF  
of the form?). However, there appears to be a problem on printing, whereby  
the PostScript "image" is larger than the bitmap preview on which the text  
boxes were originally overlaid, and so in the printout the text is no  
longer where it was intended to be.
-- 
C.B.
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